International Expansion Helps Guangzhou's Baiyun International Grow

Posted 12/01/2012

Baiyun International Airport in the Chinese city of Guangzhou has maintained its position as one of the country’s mainland hubs as a result of a strong past year.  The facility handled 45.04 million passengers during 2011 thanks in a big part to the growth of its international network – ten new routes were opened and movements increased to 61,000 up 15.5 per cent year-on-year and passenger volume reached seven million, up 20 per cent on the previous year.

The last calendar year, 2011, was the first of the airport’s 12th five-year plan, and the success of its business model and hub status can be clearly seen in its end of year statistics.  International transfer passengers for the 12 months were up 41 per cent compared with 2010, reaching 2.46 million

The airport expects to reach 60 million passengers by 2015, with international traffic accounting for around 11 million of this total.  Baiyun International was ranked the 19th largest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2010 and will likely move up a few positions once official statistics are confirmed for 2011.

---

With effect from March 19, 2012 the Breaking News coverage on Routesonline is powered by Airline Route.  For more analysis on these stories please read our expanded coverage of the key stories of the day in The HUB. 

You can also keep up to date with the latest network development news by following the live updates from @Routesonline, @TheHUBRoutes, @RouteExchange and @airlineroute on Twitter.  While all the latest news from our events can be seen by searching the #RoutesAfrica, #RoutesAmericas, #RoutesAsia, #RoutesCIS, #RoutesEurope and #WorldRoutes hashtags.

All material is copyright of UBM Aviation Routes but the views expressed are not necessarily the views of UBM Aviation Routes and the company shall therefore not be liable for the contents of any article that appears on the site.  Although the best efforts have been taken in collecting and checking the material we can not and do not warrant that the information contained in this product is complete or accurate and does not assume and hereby disclaims liability to any person for any loss of damage caused by errors or omissions.

PLEASE NOTE: From March 7, 2012 schedule data for all news stories has been extracted from OAG Schedules iNET; All GDS data is based on a live GDS update on the day of publication; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending December 2011.  All information is subject to change.